Dual-rate transceivers with ixgbe?

[Jack Vogel]

Well, em doesn't have a pluggable phy :) Hardware is different, that's why
there's
a different driver....

Jack


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Juli Mallett <jmallett at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 19:56, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> $ ifconfig ix1
> >> ix1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> >
> > You need to bring the interface up in order for the SFP configuration to
> occur.
>
> I am little bit confused:
>
> What's different with the ixgbe(4) than em(4)?  i.e. My second em(4)
> interface auto-negotiates properly on boot up, why shouldn't ixgbe
> without having to do an additional ifconfig down/up cycle?
>
> (my ifconfig output above might be a little off since I was debugging
> my SFP issues).
>
> -aps
>